preupgrade today: getting error: cannot download the kickstart file
Matt Domsch
Matt_Domsch at dell.com
Sun Mar 29 23:49:32 UTC 2009
On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 01:57:36PM -0700, John Reiser wrote:
> I start the pungi compose a few hours after receiving the rawhide report.
> As long as there are fewer than 100 packages or so, then I consider this
> to be time enough for changes to propagate through the mirror system.
I wish it were that simple. Perhaps if we had push-mirroring in
place, it would be. As it stands, each mirror schedules its own
syncs. Some every hour or so, some every 6, some once a day. Rawhide
being the fastest churning piece on the mirror system, exposes these
latencies in ways that the other content simply doesn't.
During the F11-Alpha cycle, some bugs in MirrorManager have been
discovered and fixed which may have lead to more redirections to stale
mirrors. These should be reduced, but I can't promise they'll be
completely eliminated. MM shouldn't return stale mirrors more than ~6
hours stale. If you need a more deterministic update latency for your
specific test purposes, I recommend you point your baseurl entries at
download.fedora.redhat.com.
Thanks,
Matt
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Matt Domsch
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